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Workers’ Competency, Performance and Competitiveness in Malaysia’s Private Education Sector
Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia
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Workers’ Competency, Performance and Competitiveness in Malaysia’s Private Education Sector
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Yussof, Ishak
Ismail, Rahmah Osman, Zulkifli |
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ABSTRACTIn Malaysia, the education sector, in particular the private education sector has been expanding rapidly as a resultof government policy in liberalizing the sector and to turn Malaysia as a centre of excellence in the educationalprovision within the Asian region. This subsequently requires a more competent and competitive workforce to spearhead the expansion of this sector. This article aims to investigate determinants of workers’ competency, performance and competitiveness in the education sector so that future human resource development can be enhanced to produce a more competitive workforce. The analysis in this article is based on 567 executives/professionals in the private education sector in four major states, namely Selangor, Penang, Federal Territory and Johor. The study will compute the workers’ competency and performance indices and use these indices to construct competitiveness index, and subsequently regress these indices on several determinant factors, which include human capital, employee attributesand personal characteristics variables. The linear regression model and Ordinary Least Squared (OLS) procedure will be used in the data analysis. Our analysis shows that most of the human capital variables and workers’ attributes contributed significantly to workers’ competency, performance and subsequently their competitiveness.Keywords: human capital; workers’ competent; workers’ performance; workers’ competitiveness; private educationsectorABSTRAKDi Malaysia, sektor pendidikan terutamanya sektor pendidikan swasta telah berkembang dengan pesat berikutan dasar liberalisasi dan usaha kerajaan menjadikan negara ini sebagai pusat kecemerlangan pendidikan di rantau Asia. Usaha ini sudah tentulah memerlukan lebih ramai tenaga kerja yang berkebolehan dan berdaya saing bagi menerajui perkembangan sektor ini. Artikel ini bertujuan mengkaji faktor penentu kepada daya saing pekerja dalam sektor pendidikan supaya program pembangunan sumber manusia yang disediakan berupaya menghasilkan tenaga kerja yang berdaya saing. Analisis dalam artikel ini adalah menggunakan data yang diperolehi daripada 567 pekerja eksekutif/profesional dalam sektor pendidikan swasta di empat negeri iaitu, Selangor, Pulau Pinang, Wilayah Persakutuan dan Johor. Kajian ini akan membentuk indeks kebolehan, indeks prestasi dan seterusnya menggunakan kedua-dua indeks ini untuk membentuk indeks daya saing pekerja. Analisis regresi kemudiannya dilakukan ke atas indeks-indeks berkenaan untuk menganalisis faktor penentu kepada indeks tersebut yang meliputi pemboleh ubah modal manusia, ciri-ciri dan personaliti pekerja. Analisis ini menggunakan model regresi linear dan penganggar kuasa dua terkecil (OLS). Hasil analisis mendapati sebahagian besar daripada pemboleh ubah modal manusia dan ciri-ciri pekerja mempengaruhi kebolehan, prestasi dan seterusnya daya saing pekerja secara signifikan.Kata kunci: modal manusia; kebolehan pekerja; prestasi pekerja; daya saing pekerja; sektor pendidikan swasta
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Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
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2012-10-24
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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http://ejournal.ukm.my/jem/article/view/1340
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Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia; Vol 45 (2011): Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia
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en
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